Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Titles in Fiction category:

• Avalanche, The

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• Conqueror, The

  It was my original intention to write a biography of Alexander Hamilton in a more flexible manner than is customary with that method of reintroducing the dead to the living, but without impinging upon the territory of fiction. But after a visit to the British and Danish West Indies in sea ...

• Doomswoman, The

  It was at Governor Alvarado's house in Monterey that Chonita first knew of Diego Estenega. I had told him much of her, but had never cared to mention the name of Estenega in the presence of an Iturbi y Moncada.

• Ears of Twenty Americans, The

  "God of my soul! Do not speak of hope to me. Hope? For what are those three frigates, swarming with a horde of foreign bandits, creeping about our bay? For what have the persons of General Vallejo and Judge Leese been seized and imprisoned? Why does a strip of cotton, painted with a gapin ...

• Senator North

  "If we receive this Lady Mary Montgomery, we shall also have to receive her dreadful husband."

• Sisters-In-Law, The

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• Sleeping Fires

  There was no Burlingame in the Sixties, the Western Addition was a desert of sand dunes and the goats gambolled through the rocky gulches of Nob Hill. But San Francisco had its Rincon Hill and South Park, Howard and Fulsom and Harrison Streets, coldly aloof from the tumultuous hot heart o ...

• Valiant Runaways, The

  Roldan Castanada walked excitedly up and down the verandah of his father's house, his thumbs thrust into the red silk sash that was knotted about his waist, his cambric shirt open at the throat as if pulled impatiently apart; the soft grey sombrero on the back of his curly head making a w ...

• What Dreams May Come

  Constantinople; the month of August; the early days of the century. It was the hour of the city's most perfect beauty. The sun was setting, and flung a mellowing glow over the great golden domes and minarets of the mosques, the bazaars glittering with trifles and precious with elements of ...

• White Morning, The

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Titles in Short Stories category:

• Bells of San Gabriel, The

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• Conquest of Dona Jacoba, The

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• Head of a Priest, The

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• Isle of Skulls, The

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• Lukari's Story

  "Ay, senor! So terreeblay thing! It is many years before--1837, I theenk, is the year; the Americanos no have come to take California; but I remember like it is yesterday.

• Natalie Ivanhoff: A Memory of Fort Ross

  At Fort Ross, on the northern coast of California, it is told that an astonishing sight may be witnessed in the midnight of the twenty-third of August. The present settlement vanishes. In its place the Fort appears as it was when the Russians abandoned it in 1841. The quadrilateral stocka ...

• Pearls of Loreto, The

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• Perdida, La    

  On her fourteenth birthday they had married her to an old man, and at sixteen she had met and loved a fire-hearted young vaquero. The old husband had twisted his skinny fingers around her arm and dragged her before the Alcalde, who had ordered her beautiful black braids cut close to her n ...

• Ramble with Eulogia, A

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• Vengeance of Padre Arroyo, The

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• Wash-Tub Mail, The

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• When the Devil was Well

  The Devil locked the copper gates of Hell one night, and sauntered down a Spacian pathway. The later arrivals from the planet Earth had been of a distressingly commonplace character to his Majesty--a gentleman of originality and attainments, whatever his disagreements with the conventions ...